{"id":49775,"date":"2023-05-23T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors"},"modified":"2023-05-23T17:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T17:48:12","slug":"lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors","title":{"rendered":"Lower health centres demand specialised doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Lack of specialised doctors in lower health centres is one of the causes of a surge in Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in communities, a health official has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Robert Mutebi, the In-charge of Budondo Health Centre IV, says it is high time authorities think of deploying some specialists to handle the challenges of diagnosis in the health centre IVs because one person cannot be in a position to handle all patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a community with a big population and NCDs have increased, especially among the aging population. Hypertension and diabetes, for example, are chronic lifelong illnesses, which are very expensive and take time to be treated,\u201d he said, during a free medical camp at Budondo Health Centre IV in Jinja North Division, Jinja City on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mutebi said specialised medical personnel to handle dental, heart, kidney, liver, and lungs diagnosis are needed at lower health centres to decongest referral hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mutebi added: \u201cEven when such patients are referred to regional hospitals, the specialised doctors are overwhelmed by the number seeking their services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Susan Kikira, a senior consultant ophthalmic surgeon, who has retired from public service, said the number of eye specialists is very few in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sr Clare Ataliba, a Senior Nursing Officer at the facility, said the Computed Tomography (CT scanner), which was brought to the facility, has been lying idle for the past five years because there is no sonographer to operate it.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, Sr Ataliba says in most cases, patients who need CT scanner services are told to seek them elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething needs to be done to save the lives of the people,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Lack of specialised doctors in lower health centres is one of the causes of a surge in Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in communities, a health official has revealed. Dr Robert Mutebi, the In-charge of Budondo Health Centre IV, says it is high time authorities think of deploying some specialists to handle the challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":49774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-49775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lower health centres demand specialised doctors - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lack of specialised doctors in lower health centres is one of the causes of a surge in Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lower health centres demand specialised doctors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lack of specialised doctors in lower health centres is one of the causes of a surge in Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-23T16:16:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-23T17:48:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/sm_1684847764.131511.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Lower health centres demand specialised doctors\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-23T16:16:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-23T17:48:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors\"},\"wordCount\":293,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2023\/05\/sm_1684847764.131511.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/lower-health-centres-demand-specialised-doctors\",\"name\":\"Lower health centres demand specialised doctors - 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